Quotes About Independence

when a man sells his independence of thought for money or status, without realizing it he also sells his capacity for independence of thought; and, like the worn-out columnists and commentators, he must play the same old record over and over, because he has no capacity for taking a fresh point of view.

Carente de contacto con el mundo exterior, era un universo en sí misma.

They no longer formed a single group, united in the common cause of survival. Now their lives had diverged again into a score of independent aims and ambitions. Humanity had swallowed them up once more, as the ocean swallows a rain-drop.

Your life is not your own. Keep your hands off it.

The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action I can recall in our association. I was alone.

I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air -- or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit a man to be. Under such circumstances, I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

I follow my own methods, and tell as much or as little as I choose. That is the advantage of being unofficial.

When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man.

Lo juro, mi madre debería haberme llamado Fido.

They cannot put their stamp upon your soul

Are they trained to treat everyone as a servant?' 'Probably. That doesn't make you into one

Maybe I'm no longer a dog, but I can still bite!

Who in the universe halts when the enemy tells them to?

though we can educate the younger generation, we can even command them, we cannot control their lives, much as we think we'd do a better job of it.

If everywhere you go everyone watches you, and wants you, can you truly be yourself?

You, there, girl! Halt!" Who in the universe ever halts when the enemy tells them to? Of course I took off in the opposite direction, as fast as I could.

On those pieces of paper there was just the word "Free" and a scrawl that looked like "Jack." So these new freemen and their children for all the years after were called Freejacks.

Don't do it, Eleanor told the little girl; insist on your cup of stars; once they have trapped you into being like everyone else you will never see your cup of stars again

I am living on the moon, I told myself, I have a little house all by myself on the moon.

Sally at this time gave up any notion of being a co-operative member of a family, named herself Tiger and settled down to an unceasing, and seemingly endless, war against clothes, toothbrushes, all green vegetables, and bed.

In ten years I will be a beautiful charming lovely lady writer without any husband or children but lots of lovers and everyone will read the books I write and want to marry me but I will never marry any of them. I will have lots of money and jewels too.

Don't do it, Eleanor told the little girl; insist on your cup of stars; once they have trapped you into being like everyone else you will never see your little cup of stars again; don't do it; and the little girl glanced at her, and smiled a little subtle, dimpling, wholly comprehending smile, and shook her head stubbornly at the glass. Brave girl, Eleanor thought; wise, brave girl.

Don't do it, Eleanor told the little girl; insist on your cup of stars; once they have trapped you into being like everyone else you will never see your cup of stars again; dont't do it.

Although she would sooner have given up thinking than eating, she resented being pushed into depriving herself of either.